It's a bad name - you honestly think severe weather that is setting cold records across the continent may just maybe be linked to climate change? Just going out on a limb here.

And stay warm all you fellow Prairie folk.

Global warming is one of the biggest myths in history. Al Gore stacked his legacy on it. And thus ended his positive legacy. It's a joke. No, the humans aren't destroying the Earth. "But NAS, the polar ice caps are melting". How did they get there? Were they water first? Who caused the Earth to freeze billions of years ago?

The only place I would live south of the mason dixon line would be the Florida Keys. Frigid weather comes and goes with the sun flares/global warming or whatever. California is a country I would not like to live. I will take Canada over the AC living for 6 months anyday. Four season living! NH is mighty fine except not enough hockey!

I'm not old enough to remember it, but there's a prof from Stanford (still there) who in 1968 caused great alarm and outcry about the rate of population growth and it's pending ruination of the planet and the subsequent disasterous effect it would have on humans. The result would be just what he observed in the butterfly colonies he studied. Overpopulation led to a bad situation which caused a drastic reduction in the population. He projected that this would happen to the human race within decades. An economist disagreed. He believed humans would adapt, find alternatives to dwindling resources, adapt to situations, etc. A wager was made that was based on price of a number of the resources (oil, gas, etc.) that the prof claimed would become strained because of high demand from the growing population and therefor prices would rise dramatically. The time frame was more than 10 years I think. The economist won. Prices (adjusted for inflation), actually went down in most cases despite the population boom.

The prof however, won in my book. He got the attention he sought, benefitted financially, and his theory became one of the biggest driving forces that the environmental movemnet was based on. It didn't mater that his theory was wrong.

Guess where Al "the fraud" Gore got his idea for an inconvenient truth? Same method, same result. People are dumb.

"The year without a summer" would make Gore a hero, except it happened in 1819. London smokestack lightining, would probably be his reply. Solar flares is the answer. Most of the oxygen we breath comes diatoms.